By Gonçalo M. Tavares
Translated by Rhett McNeil
Paperback: 9781628976984
eBook: 9781628976991
Publication Date: May 11th, 2027
Description
In the fifth book of Gonçalo Tavares’s Kingdom cycle, four lost souls find themselves entangled in a war-torn city.
The Middle Bone forms part of the universe of The Kingdom, next in the series following Klaus Klump: A Man, Joseph Walser’s Machine, Jerusalem, and Learning to Pray in the Age of Technology. These brief, brutal novels are unified by their setting—a fictional European city under siege—and by the fundamental questions they cannot stop posing: How do affect, violence, and that mysterious force we can only call “evil” flow through bodies and populations? Why does the victim of violence so often become its perpetrator? What must an honest account of human nature look like in our time?
Biographical Note
Gonçalo M. Tavares has published books in a wide range of literary genres since 2001. His work has been translated in more than 75 countries around the world. He recently received the prestigious Formentor Prize, widely regarded as one of the major international literary awards and often considered a precursor to the Nobel Prize. Recent recipients include László Krasznahorkai and Annie Ernaux, while previous laureates include Pascal Quignard, Saul Bellow and Witold Gombrowicz. The first winners of the prize were Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett. His books have inspired theatrical productions, dance performances, radio plays, short films, visual arts projects, video art, opera, performance art, architectural projects, academic theses, and many other artistic works in different countries.
Rhett McNeil is a translator, critic, and scholar from Texas. He has published translations of books by Machado de Assis, A.G. Porta, António Lobo Antunes, Gonçalo M. Tavares, and João Almino, among others.